The Meaningful Business Network was created firstly as an opportunity to share the knowledge and learning, ideas, experience and insights that underpin the concept. The concept of ‘meaningful business’ emerges from multiple - conceptual, philosophical, empirical and practical - sources. Most broadly, it rests on an intersection of thought that spans research and theory on meaningful work, organisational behaviour, business purpose and transformation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, social value, management science, social change … indicating that there is no definitive origin or guide to the concept.
Many of these underpinning ideas and resources are openly accessible and on this page we have sought to bring together some that we think are relevant or reliable, some may be only tangentially relevant while others are intended simply to be provocative. As an emerging field of evidence, the materials and resources listed are only a snapshot of this emerging concept. We invite you, as a business practitioner, policy maker, local stakeholder, academic, etc. to let us know of things we might also add, or even share with us how you have used these ideas to develop your practice and insight.
Where materials are not published openly, you should contact the publishers or originators directly to gain access. If any of the links to listed materials are broken, please let us know using the contact details provided on this site. Also, if you think there are materials we ought to add, please let us know using the same contact function.
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